[Python-ideas] More "ensure*" packages

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 14.08.2015 15:44, Donald Stufft wrote:
> 
> 
> On August 14, 2015 at 7:22:56 AM, M.-A. Lemburg (mal at egenix.com) wrote:
>>  
>> requests is already installed as part of pip, along with a whole
>> set of other packages (but not exposed at the top-level), so
>> moving it to its own ensure package wouldn't really change much
>> in terms of approach.
> 
> 
> This isn’t really true except in a very abstract sense. Yes, requests exists because of pip, but it exists inside of pip (``import pip._vendor.requests``) not anywhere where normal people should be importing it.

Right. What I'm saying is that requests is already installed,
so moving it from inside pip to top-level isn't much of a
change in terms of "do we want requests to be installed via
ensure or not".

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